Documents show who the major oil speculators in the gas price run of 2008

Hedge Funds, Banks, Oil Producers (such as the Kochs)

This is who’s driving up the price of gas, unrelated to supply and demand.

If you drive 10,000 miles per year, gas at $4 (speculation driven) instead of $2 (supply and demand), your cost goes from
$1,000 to $2,000.

This unrepresented Tax on every driver in the country is also dis-proportionally affects our poor.

The concept of good and evil is not one I typically subscribe to.
But these oil companies are evil.

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/09/15/317330/leaked-cftc-oil-speculation-data/

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